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CASE38444: Horary consultation concerning Avis Bradbury (PERSON28306)

Question asked by the patient on 25 July 1611 at 09:00

RN Avys Bradbery was prtely mended wth her playster. & after the playster it went downe into her legs & instep & now is sick at harte Iuly 25. 1611 h. 9 ant m 1611.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 200, f. 135r (bottom left part of page)

Avis Bradbury (PERSON28306)

Medical >Treatment (Treatment follow-up)

Medical >Parts of the body >Limbs and joints  (LegsFeet)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso (Heart)

Medical >Illness (general)  (Sickness )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Angelic consultation

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CASE37480: Decumbiture for Elizabeth Eaton (PERSON30061)

Question asked by the patient on 30 January 1611 at 13:45

RN she was strangly taken wth her sicknes & a shak{ing} in her right arme. Sept 21. ♀. h 4. p m 1610. {illeg} held her two houres. & th{en} tooke her a sonday being 23{illeg} in the after noone afore sone set & held all yt ni{ght} vntill ten the next daye h. 4. p m 16i0

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 200, f. 4v (bottom right part of page)

Elizabeth Eaton (PERSON30061)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Strange affliction)

Medical >Illness (general)  (Sickness )

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Lame, numb or paralysed (Trembling)

Medical >Parts of the body >Limbs and joints  (Arms)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Astrological Chart

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?f2-volume-name=Napier%2C%20vol.%2020;f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ALimbs%20and%20joints;f4-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllness%20%28general%29%3A%3ASickness, accessed 25 February 2025.

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